suggestion Katie...go to your favorite bakery-request owner to order you a case.
I used to do that, Mark. Unfortunately the bakery won't do it any longer.
suggestion Katie...go to your favorite bakery-request owner to order you a case.
We tend to do things somewhat knee-jerk on our side of the pond, ...
Currently KA flour is $3.19/5-pound bag at our area Wal-Mart stores. Last week a local market had Gold Medal on Saturday Special for $.99/5-pound bag. I bought 2 bags because I was nearly out of bench flour. Normally I use Aldi's house flour for bench flour, but their flour is now up to $1.69/5-pound bag. I use bench flour for breading, etc. so I don't have to "sacrifice" my prized KA flour for those tasks.
As an experiment, I purchased a 25-pound bag of Sam's bread flour a few weeks ago. It was less than $11. I'm going to do a side-by-side comparison with bread made with KA flour and the same bread made with Sam's flour. We'll see.
My current plan is to buy extra flour when it goes on sale and vacuum seal it and store it in a cooler/darker area of the house. No room in the freezer or I'd store it there.
In the end, we all do what we have to do when things get tight. One thing I know Buck and I won't do and that's give up our homemade bread. Actually, we couldn't afford commercially-produced bread. That's gone way off the scale price-wise.
In a better reality perhaps.....We tend to do things somewhat knee-jerk on our side of the pond, often without a great deal of thought going into it for the long range outcome.
Good info mcnerd, thanks for sharing that.
I think it's scary times, personally.
Well, I don't bake much, so I don't really worry about flour quality vs. price/lb. However, the statistical geek in me was piqued by the 1 Euro / Kilo of flour price quoted by the person in France. I converted currencies, then weights, and that comes out to $3.60US / 5 lb bag of flour, before sales tax (assuming where you live charges sales tax on food, OK does).
Is there still a VAT tax in restaurants? I remember I loved the "no tipping" custom beyond leaving the coins in your change.No sales or any other tax...in France its all included, including prices in restaurants...no extra service charges or tipping unless you really want to!